 | Aaron Schuyler - Measurement - 1873 - 508 pages
...point. An inspection of the above will reveal the following laws: 1. If the number is integral or mixed, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of integral figures. 2. If the number is entirely decimal, the characteristic is negative and is one greater,... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - Measurement - 1875 - 284 pages
...An inspection of the above will reveal the following laws : 1. If the number is integral or mixed, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of integral figures. 2. If the number is entirely decimal, the cltaracteristic is negative and is one... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 518 pages
...reason the common system of logarithms is used in practice. 10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic...than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 520 pages
...reason the common system of logarithms is used in practice. 10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digit* to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than ', the characteristic is negative,... | |
 | Charles Winthrop Crockett - Logarithms - 1896 - 132 pages
...is used in practice. 10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than i, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than i, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 524 pages
...is used in practice. 10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than i, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than i, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 518 pages
...system of logarithms is used in practice. 10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the num6er is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the num6er of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the num6er is less than 1, the characteristic... | |
 | Daniel Alexander Murray - Plane trigonometry - 1899 - 350 pages
...mantissas. The characteristics are obtained by the following rule, which is deduced in algebra : * When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of figures to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative,... | |
 | James Morford Taylor - Algebra - 1900 - 504 pages
...449. The characteristic of the common logarithm of any number is found by the following simple rule: When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and arithmetically one fc.ss than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number... | |
 | Thomas Ulvan Taylor, Charles Puryear - Trigonometry - 1902 - 268 pages
...characteristic is 3. For numbers greater than 1, therefore, we see that the characteristic is positive and 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. Any positive number less than 1 may be expressed, exactly or approximately, as a decimal, and... | |
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When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point... 
